January 27, 2010

Jay-Z on the economy

Well, it's not exactly Jay-Z, but if the rapper were an economist, this is what he might come up with. You're mystified by the debate on how we got into the recession and how to get out? This video, created by Hoover Institution scholar Russ Roberts and filmmaker John Papola, makes the issues clear--not to mention entertaining. And you get the rare treat of seeing John Maynard Keynes drunk.

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Free markets until they need welfare, then back to free markets again. Free speech until I want to put a menorah or a crescent in town square next to the nativity scene, then we need some speech restrictions.

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